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Review Of Applied Urban Research 1976, Vol. 04, No. 03, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Intra-Urban Migration and Omaha's Westward Expansion," by Paul S. T. Lee.

While there has been increasing concern about Omaha's westward expansion and future growth pattern, there remains a lack of information about the extent and speed of this outward expansion for the past several years and the socio-economic factors that might have caused it.¹

This information as well as relative changes of population among all sections of Omaha is of prime importance in city-wide public service planning and in formulating future city growth policy. This study presents findings from an …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1976, Vol. 04, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Regional and Local Economic Indicators, 1975: The Mid-Content Region."

The metropolitan areas of the Mid-Continent Region experienced a sharp economic downturn during 1975.¹ Double· digit inflation of 1974 ebbed but unemployment rates were on the rise. By mid-year 1975 there was noticeable improvement in construction activity, sales, and the level of nonfarm wage and salary employment. Quarterly and annual economic data on the regional urban economies for 1974-1975 are presented in Table 1.

Housing And Business Investment In Nebraska's Non-Metropolitan Communities And Declining Urban Neighborhoods, Ralph H. Todd, David W. Hinton, Paul S. T. Lee, Thomas C. Moss, William B. Rogers

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This study focuses on one subject area of the Urban Affairs Committee's charge: housing and business investment in Nebraska's declining urban neighborhoods and non-metropolitan communities. From its beginning the study has had two primary objectives:

First, to ascertain the demand for housing and business investment funds in the declining urban neighborhoods of Nebraska's two major metropolitan cities, Omaha and Lincoln, and in the State's non-metropolitan communities; and the perceptions of homeowners, renters, landlords and businessmen in these communities and neighborhoods regarding the availability to them of such funds.

Second, to identify factors which discourage or hamper housing and business investment …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1976, Vol. 04, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "The Changing Distribution of Omaha's Office Space," by Armin K. Ludwig.

During the first half of the twentieth century in most American cities the journey between home and work tended to increase. This was especially true for white collar office workers and managers whose rising incomes permitted not only purchase of new homes in the suburbs but also purchase and operation of automobiles to ease the longer journey to work. In most cases this journey took them to the Central Business District (CBD) or financial center of the city. As these …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 12, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Regional Urban Economic Indicators."

Beginning with this issue of the Review, CAUR will compile and report quarterly economic data pertaining to 25 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas {SMSA's) located in the 11-state Mid-Continent Region. The states included in this Region are Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota. Comparative statistics on {1) average weekly income of production workers, {2) non-agricultural wage and salary employment, {3) employment in the construction industry, and {4) unemployment are presented in Table I for each of the 25 SMSA's.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 11, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Roll-Call Cohesion of the Omaha Metropolitan Area Delegations in the 1975 Session of the Nebraska State Legislature," by Murray Frost.

What is the roll·call behavior of the Omaha Metropolitan Area delegation in the 1975 session of the Nebraska State Legislature? Specifically:

1. How much cohesion does the Omaha Metropolitan Area delegation exhibit on roll calls? To what extent does the delegation vote together as a group?

2. How often does each of the legislators vote with or against the delegation majority?

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 10, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "A Geographical Approach to Residential Construction Cost Structure," by Gary K. Higgs and William H. Cheek.

The single-family residence is generally the largest and most important purchase of any household unit. Those employed in building these residences also constitute a large proportion of the domestic construction industry and the unique emotional status of a home has made the residence construction and related industries one of the principal material economic indicators.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 09, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Education in Nebraska: Fifth Annual Report."

This report represents a compilation of the most recent data made available by governmental and nongovernmental sources. The report contains information on a wide variety of subjects, including school enrollments, student withdrawals, status and plans of high school and university graduates, and degrees conferred by the University of Nebraska System as well as other Omaha Area colleges and universities.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 08, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha Intra-Urban Demographic & Economic Indicators."

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 07, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Community Development Needs in Rural Nebraska: An Analysis of Preapplication for HUD Community Development Funds," by Thomas Moss and Michael O'Connor.

Many small communities in rural Nebraska are faced with a wide variety of community needs and an inadequate source of funds with which to meet these needs. This fact was made quite clear in this study of the pre-applications for Community Development funds which were recently submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development {HUD) by small communities in the State's rural areas outside the metropolitan regions of …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 06, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Taxing Services i Nebraska - A Revenue Forecast," by H. Wade German.

With the demand for state and local government services increasing at a rate greater than most present tax structures can accommodate, either additional resources must be shifted from the private to the public sector or public services must approach an upper bound. The recent statements from Mayor Zorinsky and Governor Exon highlight the potential fiscal difficulties in Nebraska.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "A Case Study of Crime at the South Side Terrace Housing Development," by Ken Overturf, Mark Schumacker, Richard Timberlake, Roy Vaugh, and Ruben Young.

The purposes of this study were to determine the crime rate within the South Side Terrace Housing (SSTH) development, the rate of reported and unreported crimes within the development, the security measures affecting the crime rate, and the characteristics of those victimized.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha, 1973 and 1974--And a Look Ahead."

This is the fourth in a series of reports being presented on intra-urban demographic and economic indicators for the Omaha urban area. In order to reveal the developing patterns and rates of change of demographic and economic activity within the Omaha urban area, Omaha and subarea totals are presented by quarter for both 1973 and 1974.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1975, Vol. 03, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: The Small Community."

The October issue of the Review summarized the major community development provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, which was signed into law by President Ford August 22, 1974. This article supplements that earlier Review Article by providing information on the funds expected to be available under the Act for community development in cities and towns under 50,000 population and non-urban counties which may not have participated in community development programs previously. It also describes application procedures …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 11, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Net In-Commuter Patterns to the Douglas County Urban Core And to the Omaha CBD."

Introduction During the past several decades workers have increasingly tended to live outside the area in which they are employed. The work area may be the core urban county in a large metropolitan area or the Central Business District (CBD) of the central city, but in either case such moves have tended to extend the average distance of the journey to work. Such moves have also led to the transfer of money in the form of paychecks …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 10, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha Intra-Urban Demographic & Economic Indicators."

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 09, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Attitudes Toward the Construction of an Urban Expressway: The North Omaha Case."

T he locating and construction of an urban expressway creates conflicts between the need for new and improved routes of access and the need to protect the environmental, social and economic characteristics of parts of the city itself. A new freeway in an urban area inevitably means there will be destruction of homes, disruption of neighborhoods and local patterns of movement, and changes in landscape, noise and traffic levels. Citizen groups often organize to protest these disruptions and changes …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 08, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha Intra-Urban Demographic & Economic Indicators."

Economic Impact Of The University Of Nebraska At Omaha On The Omaha Economy, Ralph H. Todd, Robert F. Blair

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The last few years represent a period of substantial growth for the City of Omaha and the University of Nebraska at Omaha as well. A moment's reflection reveals that the growth of the City and the University are interdependent. The purpose of this study is to provide a basis for understanding some of these relationships--particularly the economic relationships that exist between the campus and the community.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 07, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha-Council Bluffs Tax Border Issue."

Recently governmental administrators and politicians of Omaha have voiced concern over the sales losses that might result because of Iowa's exemption of food purchases from the retail sales tax--a measure which took effect July 1, 1974.¹

Generally, it is felt that a sales tax rate differential between two border cities will influence sales as favorable rate differentials are reduced or unfavorable rate differentials are created or widened. However, the magnitude of the problem will depend on many factors, e.g., location of major shopping facilities, distance, …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 05, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "An Overview of Education in Nebraska and the Omaha Area."

This report presents basic educational data on elementary, secondary, higher and continuing education in Omaha and Nebraska. This report contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of educational statistics including school enrollments, student dropouts, status and plans of high school and University graduates, and degrees conferred by technical colleges and traditional institutions of higher education. The report utilizes data from numerous sources, both governmental and nongovernmental, as indicated in the source note at the end of the appropriate …

Pottawattamie County Population Projections: 1975-2020, John P. Zipay

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The population estimates and projections to the year 2020 for Pottawattamie County are based upon specific assumptions regarding fertility, mortality, and migration patterns. These projections cannot be interpreted as statements of what necessarily will happen to population, they simply show what will happen if the assumptions upon which the projections are made prove to be correct. It is the responsibility of the user of this report to evaluate the reasonableness of the assumptions underlying the projections and to modify such projections if given different sets of assumptions.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Regional Planning: Omaha in the International Context," by Peter E. Pflaum.

Attitudes, methods, and results of local and regional planning as practiced in Omaha versus Great Britain are discussed in this paper. The article was stimulated by comparisons that were obvious to the author after recently spending three months in England. The principal factors involved in the Omaha-England comparison arc: (1) the organizational and administrative structure of the planning process, (2) the attitudes in the public and private domain towards planning, and (3) the relative costs and benefits of planning.

While …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 03, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of the Review of Applied Urban Research features "Nebraska State Highway-User Revenue: Its Distribution to Local Governments," by Ralph H. Todd.

The provision of highways, roads and streets is one of the most important functions performed by state and local governments. Nebraska expenditures on highways are second only to educational expenditures in quantitative importance.¹ The State and local transportation network is extensive. In 1973, Nebraska had enough state and local roads, streets, and highways to stretch nearly four times around the globe.² Due to t he existence of a large number of motor vehicles (1,089,872 registered …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Omaha's Changing Profile."

In cooperation with the Economic Development Council of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the Center in 1973, initiated a program of providing up-to-date economic and demographic data on Omaha.¹

During the initial year, data were developed on population, employment, income, housing, retail sales and real estate values and taxes. The results of the year-long research has been produced as "Omaha's Changing Profile" {33 minute color slide presentation). In "Omaha's Changing Profile" the city was divided into six geographical subareas as depicted on Map 1. The delineations allow …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1974, Vol. 02, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Revenue Sharing and the New Federalism" by Murray L. Weidenbaum.

While I was chairman of the Administration's Committee on Revenue Sharing and attempting to develop support for the program, I made literally hundreds of presentations to state and local government officials and civic groups throughout the nation.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 04, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Neighborhood Mobilization in Black Omaha: Some Observations," by Kwame Poku Annor.

The decade of the sixties was a period of major economic, political, and social change in large central cities; yet few major institutional innovations were adopted to enable the cities to cope more effectively with the new conditions. The failure of central cities to solve their more pressing problems and rising expectations among the disadvantaged led to agitation for major reform in the institutions of municipal government.

Incentive Study: Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency Missouri Riverfront Development Program, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This section presents a description of special incentives that could be used to attract commercial, industrial, and housing investment into the Riverfront Development area - particularly into the low income and deteriorated sections of the RDP. Special incentives in this paper refer to tax and non-tax inducements that may be used to reduce the cost and/or risk of commercial, industrial, and housing investment into the RDP. Specific recommendations are presented in section, Four.

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 02, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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This issue of Review of Applied Urban Research features "Issues in School Desegregation" by Peter E. Pflaum.

The current school desegregation crisis in Omaha makes a review of the issues in school desegregation especially relevant. Desegregation first referred to the dismantling of the southern dual school systems. The general principle is that the racial identity of schools should be removed. There should not be 'black' schools or 'white' schools, just schools. Since 1964, the courts have acted not only where the segregation was 'de jure' (by law) but in cases of 'de facto' segregation (where segregation existed without clear action …

Review Of Applied Urban Research 1973, Vol. 01, No. 01, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

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Although employment conditions in the Omaha SMSA present an overall view of relative prosperity and economic well-being, there is a wide disparity between black and white employment by occupation.² This disparity, along with an equally disturbing income disparity between blacks and whites in similar occupation groups, merits the immediate attention of local businessmen, politicians, and concerned citizens.

In market terms, a common explanation for black-white employment and income differentials hinges on differences in educational (i .e., skill) levels. Hence, a person's employability potential is to a large extent a function of educational preparation, and one would expect rather wide …